Victoria, Lady Welby
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Victoria, Lady Welby, more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist.
Photograph by G.C. Beresford
The House Builders (Portraits of Sir W.E. & The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory). Painting (1880) by Frank Dicksee
First editions of works by Victoria Welby
L. E. J. Brouwer
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Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians
Victoria, Lady Welby
…effect on the Significs group, most of whose members were Dutch, including Gerrit Mannoury and Frederik van Eeden. Hence she indirectly influenced L. E. J. Brouwer, the founder of intuitionistic logic. Following her death in 1912, Sir Charles Welby presented her collection of books to the University of London…
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Brouwer (right) at the International Mathematical Congress, Zurich 1932